• Body composition impacts appetite regulation in middle childhood. A prospective study of Norwegian community children 

      Steinsbekk, Silje; Llewellyn, Clare H; Fildes, Alison; Wichstrøm, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background Research suggests a role for both fat mass and muscle mass in appetite regulation, but the longitudinal relationships between them have not yet been examined in children. The present study therefore aimed to ...
    • Body Size Estimation from Early to Middle Childhood: Stability of Underestimation, BMI, and Gender Effects 

      Steinsbekk, Silje; Kløckner, Christian; Fildes, Alison; Kristoffersen, Pernille; Rognsås, Stine Leming; Wichstrøm, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Individuals who are overweight are more likely to underestimate their body size than those who are normal weight, and overweight underestimators are less likely to engage in weight loss efforts. Underestimation of body ...
    • Child and parent predictors of picky eating from preschool to school age 

      Steinsbekk, Silje; Bonneville-Roussy, Arielle; Fildes, Alison; Clare, Llewellyn; Wichstrøm, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background Picky eating is prevalent in childhood. Because pickiness concerns parents and is associated with nutrient deficiency and psychological problems, the antecedents of pickiness need to be identified. We propose ...
    • Confirmation of the Factor Structure and Reliability of the ‘Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire’ in an Adolescent Sample 

      Hunot-Alexander, Claudia; Beeken, Rebecca J; Goodman, William; Fildes, Alison; Croker, Helen; Llewellyn, Clare; Steinsbekk, Silje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Introduction: Appetitive traits, including Food Responsiveness, Enjoyment of Food, Satiety Responsiveness, Emotional Over- and Under-Eating, Food Fussiness and Slowness in Eating, have been captured across childhood using ...
    • Emotional Feeding and Emotional Eating: Reciprocal Processes and the Influence of Negative Affectivity 

      Steinsbekk, Silje; Barker, Edward D.; Llewellyn, Clare; Fildes, Alison; Wichstrøm, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Emotional eating, that is, eating more in response to negative mood, is often seen in children. But the origins of emotional eating remain unclear. In a representative community sample of Norwegian 4-year-olds followed up ...
    • Emotional over- and under-eating in early childhood are learned not inherited 

      Herle, Moritz; Fildes, Alison; Steinsbekk, Silje; Rijsdijk, Frühling; Llewellyn, Clare H (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Emotional overeating (EOE) has been associated with increased obesity risk, while emotional undereating (EUE) may be protective. Interestingly, EOE and EUE tend to correlate positively, but it is unclear whether they reflect ...
    • Screening for pickiness – a validation study 

      Steinsbekk, Silje; Sveen, Trude Hamre; Fildes, Alison; Llewellyn, Clare; Wichstrøm, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Picky eating is prevalent in childhood and is associated with negative health outcomes. Therefore early detection of pickiness is pertinent. Because no psychometric measure of picky/fussy eating has been validated, we aimed ...